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Horrific. This is horrible, I hope the ambulance are able to help all the wounded. It's important that we do what we can, as a community, to help support those affected.
The heroic response from those around, including citizens and the police, probably saved many lives, and it's important that we recognise their courage.
It's bad enough shit like this happens overseas. It's even worse that this can happen here, literally on the other side of the world.
Well it happens in Sydney, and to a lesser extent Melbourne. It does frustrate me a bit that these things get framed as Australian issues when they're often not.
i don’t get how it’s not an australian issue for an australian to shoot a bunch of people in australia
Look through the list of terrorist attacks (successful and prevented) in Australia, you'll consistently see the same two cities coming up. It is hysterical and/or arrogant to immediately frame this as a national issue when it's just simply not. Australia is not mono-cultural, we shouldn't be extrapolating out from two cities and pretending the other ~60% of the population suddenly has something to fear.
Man you're not even correct on your claims.
"The most populous states have the highest number of people doing shit" yeah it's called statistical probability.
Did you not read the page you linked?.Most of the incidents are in Sydney or Melbourne or their outer suburbs/districts. And yes, bigger cities tend to have higher reports of terrorism. That is entirely consistent with the point I am making here.
You literally claimed this can't be a national problem because baawww two states.
Those two states hold the majority of the population of the nation. Hell, their individual capital cities alone hold about double the entirety of WA. Combined, they make up over half the country - as in nearly 60% of our entire population. What friggin' metric do you need for something to be considered national?
Sydney + Melbourne is closer to 40% of the nation's population. Not really sure why you're talking about states, that's a complete strawman on your part.
but there’s only 2 cities in australia
Fucking pussy little cunts, I hope that one in hospital survives so we can send him to our worst prison where he can live his life getting fucking beat the living fuck out of like the cowardly little bitch cunt he is.. the other one is dead, good fucking riddance.
God I hope he survives so he can face the Consequences of being a bitch cunt.
Lock him in a cell with some of our worst criminals and leave them be, Ohh after telling them what he did of course.
I can’t find news that one is dead. Can you let me know what source you used please?
Edit: found it. Yahoo news is reporting that one of the gunmen is dead, one in custody with ten others dead. ABC is reporting three dead, ten wounded, both gunmen in custody as at 8:23 pm Sydney time
Whoever that guy was that disarmed one of the shooters should have free drinks at every single bar in Australia.
What an absolute legend. Fuckin hero.
Direct link to footage of the legend of the century:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-14/active-shooter-bondi-beach-sydney-nsw/106141580